La Choza and The Shed have the same owners, the same chile, and similar menus. I just like La Choza better because it's not as crowded.

I've haven't been to the main Coyote Cafe, just to Coyote Cantina, their cheaper rooftop restaurant, and didn't see what was so great about the food. It's very lively in the summer though (at times, so lively you can't hear the other people at your table talk). We all ordered fish tacos. Maybe other things on the menu are better, I don't know.

Another place to look at in Taos for dinner is Love Apple. Again, not inexpensive, but not over the top either. Entrees run between $14 and $26. It's a very small place, so it's a good idea to reserve.

Chef/owner Leslie Fay intends to reopen if she can find a site to suit her. Apparently the closed location needed serious repairs and upgrades that the landlord was not on the hook to do.

I'm a cynic... Lambert's moved into the long vacant space that once was The Apple Tree. Lambert's can be a but fancier than Graham's Grill was but the closing of Graham's followed the Lambert's move by just a few months. They were each on opposite ends of the same very small shopping area off of the Taos Plaza.

The owner of Dragonfly says she was told the property owner plans to "develop", and was not given any option to negotiate to stay. She does not know if she will open elsewhere.

All these landlord-prompted closings in Taos and Albuquerque remind me of Anthony Bourdain's constant refrain during a special on old-time New York restaurants, -- that the only way to survive long-term is to own the building. You'd think the lower key real estate situation here would make NM more forgiving, but maybe not.